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Mechiel Lukkien
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add webmail
it was far down on the roadmap, but implemented earlier, because it's interesting, and to help prepare for a jmap implementation. for jmap we need to implement more client-like functionality than with just imap. internal data structures need to change. jmap has lots of other requirements, so it's already a big project. by implementing a webmail now, some of the required data structure changes become clear and can be made now, so the later jmap implementation can do things similarly to the webmail code. the webmail frontend and webmail are written together, making their interface/api much smaller and simpler than jmap. one of the internal changes is that we now keep track of per-mailbox total/unread/unseen/deleted message counts and mailbox sizes. keeping this data consistent after any change to the stored messages (through the code base) is tricky, so mox now has a consistency check that verifies the counts are correct, which runs only during tests, each time an internal account reference is closed. we have a few more internal "changes" that are propagated for the webmail frontend (that imap doesn't have a way to propagate on a connection), like changes to the special-use flags on mailboxes, and used keywords in a mailbox. more changes that will be required have revealed themselves while implementing the webmail, and will be implemented next. the webmail user interface is modeled after the mail clients i use or have used: thunderbird, macos mail, mutt; and webmails i normally only use for testing: gmail, proton, yahoo, outlook. a somewhat technical user is assumed, but still the goal is to make this webmail client easy to use for everyone. the user interface looks like most other mail clients: a list of mailboxes, a search bar, a message list view, and message details. there is a top/bottom and a left/right layout for the list/message view, default is automatic based on screen size. the panes can be resized by the user. buttons for actions are just text, not icons. clicking a button briefly shows the shortcut for the action in the bottom right, helping with learning to operate quickly. any text that is underdotted has a title attribute that causes more information to be displayed, e.g. what a button does or a field is about. to highlight potential phishing attempts, any text (anywhere in the webclient) that switches unicode "blocks" (a rough approximation to (language) scripts) within a word is underlined orange. multiple messages can be selected with familiar ui interaction: clicking while holding control and/or shift keys. keyboard navigation works with arrows/page up/down and home/end keys, and also with a few basic vi-like keys for list/message navigation. we prefer showing the text instead of html (with inlined images only) version of a message. html messages are shown in an iframe served from an endpoint with CSP headers to prevent dangerous resources (scripts, external images) from being loaded. the html is also sanitized, with javascript removed. a user can choose to load external resources (e.g. images for tracking purposes). the frontend is just (strict) typescript, no external frameworks. all incoming/outgoing data is typechecked, both the api request parameters and response types, and the data coming in over SSE. the types and checking code are generated with sherpats, which uses the api definitions generated by sherpadoc based on the Go code. so types from the backend are automatically propagated to the frontend. since there is no framework to automatically propagate properties and rerender components, changes coming in over the SSE connection are propagated explicitly with regular function calls. the ui is separated into "views", each with a "root" dom element that is added to the visible document. these views have additional functions for getting changes propagated, often resulting in the view updating its (internal) ui state (dom). we keep the frontend compilation simple, it's just a few typescript files that get compiled (combined and types stripped) into a single js file, no additional runtime code needed or complicated build processes used. the webmail is served is served from a compressed, cachable html file that includes style and the javascript, currently just over 225kb uncompressed, under 60kb compressed (not minified, including comments). we include the generated js files in the repository, to keep Go's easily buildable self-contained binaries. authentication is basic http, as with the account and admin pages. most data comes in over one long-term SSE connection to the backend. api requests signal which mailbox/search/messages are requested over the SSE connection. fetching individual messages, and making changes, are done through api calls. the operations are similar to imap, so some code has been moved from package imapserver to package store. the future jmap implementation will benefit from these changes too. more functionality will probably be moved to the store package in the future. the quickstart enables webmail on the internal listener by default (for new installs). users can enable it on the public listener if they want to. mox localserve enables it too. to enable webmail on existing installs, add settings like the following to the listeners in mox.conf, similar to AccountHTTP(S): WebmailHTTP: Enabled: true WebmailHTTPS: Enabled: true special thanks to liesbeth, gerben, andrii for early user feedback. there is plenty still to do, see the list at the top of webmail/webmail.ts. feedback welcome as always. |
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Mechiel Lukkien
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in DSNs, add a References header pointing to the message with deliverability issues
so mail user agents will show DSNs threaded/grouped with the original message. we store the MessageID in the message queue, so we have the value within reach when we need it. i saw a references header in a DSN from gmail on a test account. makes sense to me. |
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Mechiel Lukkien
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8096441f67
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new feature: when delivering messages from the queue, make it possible to use a "transport"
the default transport is still just "direct delivery", where we connect to the destination domain's MX servers. other transports are: - regular smtp without authentication, this is relaying to a smarthost. - submission with authentication, e.g. to a third party email sending service. - direct delivery, but with with connections going through a socks proxy. this can be helpful if your ip is blocked, you need to get email out, and you have another IP that isn't blocked. keep in mind that for all of the above, appropriate SPF/DKIM settings have to be configured. the "dnscheck" for a domain does a check for any SOCKS IP in the SPF record. SPF for smtp/submission (ranges? includes?) and any DKIM requirements cannot really be checked. which transport is used can be configured through routes. routes can be set on an account, a domain, or globally. the routes are evaluated in that order, with the first match selecting the transport. these routes are evaluated for each delivery attempt. common selection criteria are recipient domain and sender domain, but also which delivery attempt this is. you could configured mox to attempt sending through a 3rd party from the 4th attempt onwards. routes and transports are optional. if no route matches, or an empty/zero transport is selected, normal direct delivery is done. we could already "submit" emails with 3rd party accounts with "sendmail". but we now support more SASL authentication mechanisms with SMTP (not only PLAIN, but also SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-1 and CRAM-MD5), which sendmail now also supports. sendmail will use the most secure mechanism supported by the server, or the explicitly configured mechanism. for issue #36 by dmikushin. also based on earlier discussion on hackernews. |
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Mechiel Lukkien
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add a "backup" subcommand to make consistent backups, and a "verifydata" subcommand to verify a backup before restoring, and add tests for future upgrades
the backup command will make consistent snapshots of all the database files. i had been copying the db files before, and it usually works. but if the file is modified during the backup, it is inconsistent and is likely to generate errors when reading (can be at any moment in the future, when reading some db page). "mox backup" opens the database file and writes out a copy in a transaction. it also duplicates the message files. before doing a restore, you could run "mox verifydata" on the to-be-restored "data" directory. it check the database files, and compares the message files with the database. the new "gentestdata" subcommand generates a basic "data" directory, with a queue and a few accounts. we will use it in the future along with "verifydata" to test upgrades from old version to the latest version. both when going to the next version, and when skipping several versions. the script test-upgrades.sh executes these tests and doesn't do anything at the moment, because no releases have this subcommand yet. inspired by a failed upgrade attempt of a pre-release version. |